Robert Icke's modern take on Sophocles runs at Studio 54. Pete Hempstead. | Broadway |. November 13, 2025. 398 Lesley Manville in OEDIPUS Photo by ...
Performances are now underway for Robert Icke's new adaptation of Oedipus on Broadway, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. The Olivier Award-winning Best Revival production opened on B…
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The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock described the art of suspense as providing the audience with foreknowledge of some terrible event that is about to unfold on unsuspecting characters. We …
These are also, more or less, the salient points of "Oedipus," Sophocles's tragedy, now revamped for Broadway. In the original, Oedipus is already ...
'Oedipus' Review: Brilliantly Reimagining Sophocles on Broadway · Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in Robert Icke's smart spin on the Greek tragedy ...
Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. Direct from a sold-out, record-breaking, Olivier Award-winning West End run, Sophocles' epic tragedy is …
His Oedipus, while glowing with his usual whip-smart language, doesn't have much fun in the toppling. Each domino falls ("I killed who?! You're my what?") with complete earnestness, and with…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, giving two of this year's great performances, lead a brilliant cast that turns this millennia-old story of pride and familial dysfunction into a timely polit…
It's where we learn her story in all its graphic detail, and though Manville is one hell of an actor"utterly at ease in one moment, ferocious in the next, destroyed in the one after that"eve…
Icke's work is really something: I can't recall ever previously being as riveted at a Greek tragedy. And my admiration for his show is increased by how Icke manages to stay remarkably true t…
The taut spin on "Oedipus" now on Broadway after a West End run last fall is a rare and magnificent feat of adaptation: Writer and director Robert Icke draws Sophocles' ancient play into the…
Read our review of *Oedipus* on Broadway, director/adapter Robert Icke's modern take on Sophocles's Greek tragedy, starring Mark Strong and Lesley ...
